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The trade which hurt Port Adelaide most didn't even involve us. It was at the end of 2005, when an ex-Port Adelaide maggie was struggling in Melbourne and screaming to come home to Port- his name was Scott Thompson. We ignored him and he turned into a star of the comp at Adelaide, while we continued to pick up recycled spuds like Aaron Shattock and Peter Walsh.
Not quiet right. Thompson said he wanted to come home in August and unlike the crows we had to worry about September. It was 2004 not 2005.
Josh Carr wanted to go home and play with his brother at Freo, and a week after winning the flag we wasted a week trying to deal with Freo because we didn't want him to go. On the last day we got picks 11, 27 and 43 for Carr. By the Tuesday the crows had picked up Scott Thompson with a trade for pick 12 to Melbourne. We drafted Adam Thompson with pick 11, traded pick 27 for Aaron Shattock from Brisbane and got Walsh with pick 43 in a trade with Melbourne. Walsh had a good 2005, finished in the top 10 in the B&F. By the end of 2006 both Shattock and Walsh were cut and Adam Thompson was gone at the end of 2008 after a whopping 28 games.
Adelaide did well. they used pick 12 they got for Stenglein from WCE, to trade for Thompson. They were pissed off losing a 106 gamer ( who only played 102 games and 5 years for WCE but did help them beat the crows in the 2005 and 2006 prelim finals) at the time, but got a 200 game player for the club and dual club champion.